This might be sufficient, were not men prone to be wise above what is written. All that we know to be certain on this subject is, that he used sorcery, that he bewitched the people, and that he gave out himself to be some great one. A certain man called Simon - In ancient ecclesiastical writers, we have the strangest account of this man they say that he pretended to be the Father, who gave the law to Moses that he came in the reign of Tiberius in the person of the Son that he descended on the apostles on the day of pentecost, in flames of fire, in quality of the Holy Spirit that he was the Messiah, the Paraclete, and Jupiter that the woman who accompanied him, called Helena, was Minerva, or the first intelligence with many other extravagancies which probably never had an existence.

Dictionaries: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peter Samaria Simon Sorcerer Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Philip Simon Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Astrology Magic Easton Bible Dictionary - Divination Magic Samaria Simon Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination Helps Magi Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts Bewitch Great Hebrews Magi Philip Simon Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gnosticism Jude, Epistle of Magic, Divination, and Sorcery Mark, Gospel According to Peter Simon Magus Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Arts Boyhood of Jesus Gnosticism God Hellenism Magi Sacraments Samaria Samaria, Samaritans Simon Magus Sorcery Surname Morrish Bible Dictionary - Divination Miracles Philip Samaria Samaritans Simon 44 People Nations Gentiles People's Dictionary of the Bible - Magic Philip Simon Smith Bible Dictionary - Apostle Divination Ma'gi Phil'ip the Evangelist Si'mon Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Simon Maccabaeus

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